Financial due diligence

Know what you're buying before you buy it.

Project-based financial analysis that helps buyers and investors test the story behind a transaction.

When the old finance model stops working

Financial clarity should keep pace with the business.

Fortune Fixer scopes diligence around the deal, the available information, and the questions that matter most to the decision.

Business buyers and searchers

Owners preparing for a transaction

Independent sponsors and investors

Companies evaluating an acquisition

What changes

Build control around decisions, not reports for their own sake.

01

A clearer view of historical performance

02

Normalized earnings and working-capital considerations

03

Financial questions and anomalies surfaced early

04

A stronger connection between reported results and operations

How we can help

A focused scope, built for the situation.

These capabilities are combined around the business problem rather than sold as disconnected tasks.

01

Historical financial review

Examine revenue, expenses, cash flow, balance-sheet accounts, trends, and the consistency of reported performance.

02

Earnings analysis

Evaluate adjustments, non-recurring items, owner-related activity, and the assumptions behind normalized performance.

03

Working capital

Assess the cash tied to operations, seasonality, collection and payment patterns, and transaction-specific considerations.

04

Operational bridge

Compare the financial narrative with customers, products, projects, units, locations, or other operating drivers.

05

Processes and controls

Identify weaknesses in reporting, accounting workflow, information quality, and financial oversight.

06

Decision-focused findings

Organize observations, open questions, and risk areas around the buyer's actual transaction decision.

How the work moves

Start with the problem. Build what the decision requires.

The exact work product, cadence, responsibilities, and fee are defined after qualification and discovery.

Discuss a transaction
  1. 01

    Define the question

    Align on the transaction, available information, material concerns, timeline, and intended work product.

  2. 02

    Scope the review

    Set the analysis, information request, access method, deliverables, and commercial terms for the project.

  3. 03

    Test the story

    Analyze the financial record, operating drivers, adjustments, trends, and areas requiring further investigation.

  4. 04

    Discuss the findings

    Deliver the agreed work product and walk the decision-makers through observations, limitations, and next questions.

A better finance function starts with context

Tell us what you're trying to fix.

Share what is happening in the business and where you need help. Every inquiry is reviewed before the next step is recommended.

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